All posts for the month September, 2012

Corrected version! Somehow rule #1 went missing. Sorry!

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American writer of speculative fiction. He was at master at combining satire, humor, and humanism. He is best known for Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions .

Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

Mark Twain, the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is an American author. He is best known for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

Elmore Leonard, 1925-

Elmore John Leonard Jr. is an American author if novels and short stories as well as a screenwriter. His began his career writing westerns but switched to crime fiction and suspense thrillers. Much of his work has been adapted for movies and television. He is best known for Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Hombre.

Clarence Budington Kelland, 1881 – 1964

Kelland was a prolific American writer of fiction and short stories, many of which published in the Saturday Evening Post.
He is best known for Opera Hat, which inspired the 1936 film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.